perl help

i have downloaded a version of perl on my personal pc running windows 98. i am having trouble figuring out whether i have installed it properly because i don't know what anything means for example command line, or console window. Can anyone help me get this up and running. If i write a simple program in a text editor such as notepad how do i run my program. any help please!

WOW, exactly the same problem that I had 1 year ago.......

My english isn't so good, but try to understand.

Okey, install perl (under Cerl), and do what it says.

Write your perl program in notepad and save it as something.pl

Go into Dos and (cd) your way to the file that you have created.

write: perl something.pl and the file should execute.....if it does'nt you have to set the PATH......ask me again if it does'nt work.

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Excuse my bad english, but I'm still from Sweden.

one way you can tell if you have it installed is to write a simple program in notepad:

print "Hello World!n";

then save it in say C: as first.txt

then open a commmand prompt and go to the C: directory.

then type perl first.txt

if this prints hello world then you have done it correctly. also, go to www.perlbuilder.com, they have a nice little IDE for perl on windows

if you have installed the ActiveState perl distribution, just create a notepad file called something like test.pl, and put the line:

print "Hello Worldn";

then save the file and double-click it. If it runs it runs



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